"The Cruelest of Arguments..."

Some time ago, I heard a fundamentalist say that "having a gay orientation is not a sin, but doing something about it is." In other words, gay people should remain celibate.

Hogwash. Gay people have as much an emotional need to experience love, romance and sex as do heterosexuals, and no one has a right to take that away.

If you are a gay person who has gotten caught up in this, please take my advice: Don't allow any fundamentalist to take that away from you. Don't allow them to use their bigotry to rob you of your self-worth.

If you are a heterosexual person, don't allow any fundamentalist to convince you to turn yourself into the type of person who could so easily dismiss another human being's need for a life that is made complete with romance, love, and yes, sex.

As a gay man, I find the ease with which fundamentalists dismiss my romantic dreams to be both insulting and patently offensive. What they are really saying is, "...in order for you to live a moral life, you can never have sexual relations and you must live a life devoid of true romantic love. You have to give up on your dreams of finding your soul mate."

Prejudice often demands something of others that the prejudiced person is unwilling to demand of himself.

Of course, when your interpretation of the Bible is so wrought with poor scholarship and the absence of even the most basic logic, such malignancies in thought are bound to develop.

How unfortunate that fundamentalists have such hardened hearts that one of their major goals is to prevent a certain group of people from loving each other.

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